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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Anthony Powell
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(1905–2000) Novelist best known for his sequence of 12 books entitled A Dance to the Music of Time (1951–75). Together they offer a panorama of the experiences of Powell's own generation – members of the upper and middle classes who were young after World War I. The most striking figure in the large cast of characters is the appalling Kenneth Widmerpool, whose naked ambition to better himself is first seen as comic but then turns sinister as he becomes steadily more powerful. The title is that of a painting by Poussin in the *Wallace Collection, which the narrator of the books, Nicholas Jenkins, acknowledges as an influence.
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